Empire Cricket Booklet

Notes

14 Frith, Golden Age ofCricket, 12. 15 Daily Independent, 13 April 1891.

CHAPTER ONE

1 T. R. H. Davenport, South Africa: A Modern Histo ry

16 Holt, Sport and the British, 208.

(London: Macmillan, 1991), 201-204.

17 Frith, Golden Age of Cricket, 12.

2 Details obtained from F.S. Ashley-Cooper's writing, the MCC Library and Lady Anne Barnard's Letters appear in J. Winch, Cricket in Southern Africa: Two Hundred Years ofAchievements and Records

18 K. Sandiford, Cricket and the Victorians (Aldershot:

Sugar Press, 1994), 153.

19 Frith, Golden Age ofCricket, 15.

(Rosettenville: Windsor, 1997), 16-17.

20 P. Warner, The M.C.C. in South Africa (London:

3 C. L. R. James, Beyond a Bounda ry (London: Stanley

Chapman and Hall, 1906), 2.

Paul, 1963), 166.

21 A. Mallett, The Black Lords of Summer: The Story of the Aboriginal Tour ofEngland and Beyond (St. Lucia:

4 Cricket: A Weekly Record ofthe Game, 6 May 1911, 120. Monty Bowden (Dulwich), Charlie Vintcent and Aubrey Smith (both Charterhouse) were the key fi gur es in the Transvaal success. 5 R. Holt, Sport and the British (Oxford: Oarendon,

University of Queensland, 2002), 170.

22 C. Tatz, Obstacle Race: Aborigines in Sport (Sydney:

University of New South Wales, 1996), 74.

23 A. M. Grundlingh, 'Prelude to the Anglo-Boer War, 1881-1899', in T. Cameron (ed.), An Illustrated History ofSouth Africa Oohannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 1986),

1989), 203.

6 D. Frith, The Golden Age ofCricket 1890-1914

(London: Omega, 1983), 16.

187.

7 Cape Times, 25 May 1894.

24 E. Longford, Jameson's Raid: The Prelude to the Boer War (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982), 97. The description was originally made by Flora Shaw in

8 M. W. Luckin (ed.), The Histo ry ofSouth African Cricket: Including the Full Scores ofAll Important Matches since 1876 Oohannesburg: Hortor, 1915), 152.

The Times.

25 Longford, Jameson's Raid, 159.

9 Star, 6 April 1891.

26 T. Bulpin, Trail ofthe Copper King (Cape Town:

10 Diamond Fields Advertiser, 21 January 1889.

Howard B. Timmins, 1959), 106-107.

11 Daily Independent, 2 February 1889.

27 Grundlingh, "Prelude to the Anglo-Boer War', 196.

12 D. Birley, A Social Histo ry ofEnglish Cricket (London: Aurum, 1999), 165; I. Wilton, C. B. Fry: King ofSport

28 Ibid., 198.

(London: Metro, 2002), 77.

29 T. Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa 1876-1912

13 Wilton, C. B. F ry , 84-85.

Oohannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 1992), 559.